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PATENTBD FEB. s, 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 6, 1906.

Application filed July 11, 1904. Serial No. 216,161.

To all whom "111'; may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY H. NORRING- TON, a citizen of the United States, residing at West Bay City, in the county of Bay and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stamps; and, I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to an improvement in rubber stamps and similar devices, the obj ect being to produce a stamp having a revoluble plate or dial bearing on its edges one or more indorsingstamps, any one of which may be used in conjunction with the main stamp.

With this object in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, as hereinafter set forth, andv pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a part vertical section taken on the line 1 y of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a side elevation showing the improvement attached to a stamp. Figs. 3 and 4 are impressions taken from a stamp with the plate attached and show two indorsements which are obtained by revolving the plate. Fig. 5 is a modification by means of which two indorsements are obtained at the same time. Fig. 6 shows a plate carrying four indorsing-stamps.

.In the drawings I have illustrated my invention as applied to an ordinary bandstamp, such as is commonly used for dating and numbering.

A represents a bracket-plate which may be fastened to any stamp S, as shown.

B is a revolving plate pivoted centrally to plate A and carrying the indorsingstamps C C on its upturned edges B B. Each plate may carry either two indorsing-stamps, as shown in Fig. 1, or four indorsing-stamps, as shown in Fig. 6, or any other convenient hum ber. There may either be one plate, as shown in Fig. 1, or two plates on opposite sides of the stamp, as shown in Fig. 5.

The plate may be made of thin sheet metal with the edges turned up to support the indorsing-stamps, as above described, or may be made solid of wood or metal, thick enough to carry the indorsing-stamps on its edges.

To produce an indorsement such as shown in Fig. 3, the plate is turned into the position shown in Fig. 1, and to produce another indorsement, as shown in Fig. 4, the plate is inverted by revolving it about its pivot P, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2, until the stamp 0 comes into the printing position. The operation of the plate is the same with any number of indorsements.

- If desired, one indorsingstamp may be omitted from the plate, thereby producing one indorsement when the plate is turned to one stamping position and no indorsement when the plate is reversed.

I prefer in practice to provide outwardlyprojecting ends E on the plate B, by which to revolve the plate without soiling the lingers by contact with the inked surface of the indorsing stamps. The end E, moreover, serves to stiffen the plate B and admits of the plate being made of thinner metal.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

1. In combination with a stamp of the class described; a fixed bracket-plate connecting the two side members of said stamp; a plate pivotally mounted on said bracket-plate near its middle; said plate being adapted to re volve in its own plane and parallel to the plane of said bracket-plate; and stamps on the opposite edges of said revoluble plate.

2. In combination with a stamp of the class described, a bracket-plate immovably secured to said stamp a plate pivotally mounted near its middle on said bracket-plate, said plate being adapted to revolve in its own planeabout said pivot and having its opposite edges turned up; and stamps secured to said turned-up edges.

3. In combination with a stamp of the class described, a bracketplate immovably secured to said stamp; a plate-pivotally mounted near its middle on said bracket-plate, said plate being adapted to revolve in its own plane about said pivot and having its opposite edges turned up and stamps securedto said turned up edges; together with outwardly-projecting flanges on the ends of said plate, for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I a'liix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' HENRY H. NORRINGTON.

Witnesses:

W. I. CATHOART, A. A. EASTERLY. 

